Vocabulary
Resilience
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness
Urdu meaning
ابھرنے کی قوت، پلٹنا ، بازگشت
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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These spaces, however small, help preserve truth, foster resilience and sustain hope.Perhaps the most enduring aspect of Havel`s thought is his insistence that politics is, at its core, a moral endeavour.
Dawn Editorials —
Power of the powerless
— 2026-05-02
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This mismatch calls for a parallel policy push towards battery storage solutions, which can stabilise supply, smooth demand curves and enhance grid resilience.
Dawn Editorials —
Solar vision?
— 2026-04-28
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The fact that over 11m people 9.3m under `crisis` conditions and 1.7m in `emergency` still face acute food insecurity exposes a thin margin of resilience.
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Food-insecure nation
— 2026-04-27
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Climate resilience cannot sit in scattered schemes or donor-funded pilots.
Dawn Editorials —
Danger on repeat
— 2026-04-26
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The real challenge is translating that standing into economic resilience based on internal capacity.
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Economy on a cliff edge
— 2026-04-25
Synonyms
flexibility, pliability, suppleness, plasticity, elasticity, springiness
Antonyms
rigidity, fragility, vulnerability, weakness
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